For the DFW Immigration Oral History Project. Childhood in Arolsen, Germany. Father’s career in Schutzstaffel (SS or Protective Squad that served as paramilitary Corps of the Nazi Party). Studied zoology at the Philipps University of Marburg graduating with a PhD in 1964. Memories of working at family-owned laundry business for his father while…

Coats, Sam: Lawyer, Vice President of Domestic and Internal Affairs. The in-flight and ground experiences of Braniff International Airways by Abra Schnur through a collection of former Braniff employee interviews. Interviewees include flight attendants, pilots, ticket agents, ground crew, executives and family members. Content includes personal…

Dallas-based business leader and philanthropist. Grandparents’ experiences in present-day Belarus and Prussia and as immigrants to the U.S. and eventually to Fort Worth; parents’ experiences growing up in Fort Worth. Education in Fort Worth public schools culminating at Paschal High School and at UT-Austin; experiences in U.S. Army. Career as a…

For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Karen Kleiman is a clinical social worker and maternal mental health therapist. She founded the Postpartum Stress Center in Pennsylvania in 1988. Kleiman has written and co-written several books on motherhood, postpartum health, and therapy. These include: This Isn’t…

For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Brenda Major discusses her training and work in psychology, including her research into women and achievement. Then the majority of the interview is on her work studying women’s psychological causal attributions around abortion, research conducted in the 1980s. Major…

Episcopalian missionary. His experiences as a civilian internee of the Japanese in the Philippines during World War II. Capture on Mindanao; Davao internment camp, 1942-43; Santo Tomas, Manila, 1943; fall of Manila and liberation, 1945.

His experiences while temporarily assigned to the Submarine Base during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. (His permanent assignment was aboard the aircraft tender USS Avocet. He was attending signalman school at the Submarine Base).

Attorney, former Texas Land Commissioner. His views concerning water policy in Texas. Early political activities; race for Land Commissioner; multiple use environmentalism; land use planning; environmentalism vs. economics; coastal zone management; water resource development; Trinity Barge Canal; strip mining legislation; forest management; Carter…

Welder. His experiences while employed by of the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in the Dallas-Fort Worth area; joining the CCC; assignment to camps near Laramie, Wyoming (Camp 3876); Santa Paula, California; Coquille, Oregon; and Lake Worth, Texas (Camp 1816); description of camps; life in camps; post-CCC work.

Homemaker, Holocaust survivor. Her experiences during the Holocaust. Youth in Warsaw, Poland; pre-Nazi anti-Semitism; German invasion of Poland and family's decision to flee to the Soviet Union, 1941; life in Orsk; return to Poland after World War II; emigration to Israel and then to the United States [Note: Portions of Mrs Bekker's responses are…

His experiences and personal views as a member of the Second, Third, and Fourth Special Sessions of the Sixty-second Legislature. House speakership race; House rules reform; appropriations bill; insurance legislation; comments about Governor Preston Smith.

Postmater. His experiences and observations as a guard during the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo after World War II. Enlistment in the Army, October 3, 1946; basic training, Fort Dix, New Jersey, 1946; voyage across the Pacific to Japan, February, 1947; stopovers at Oahu and Guam; assignment to the 720th MP Battalion at…

For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Vietnam War-era veteran of the US Navy. Childhood and education in Pennsylvania; decision to attend nursing school; “coming out” experience; decision to enlist in Navy Nurse Corps in 1969; assignment to facilities in Florida, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Camp Lejeune, N.C., and Quantico, Va.;…

His experiences as a former Denton County, Texas, whiskey maker.

For the Ray Roberts Lake Oral History Project. Farmer. His experiences and observations concerning rural life in Denton County, Texas, 1900-1987. Breaking mules; rural school; sheep and goat raising; hog killing; charcoal making.

Former secretary to Representative Sam Rayburn. Her personal recollections and experiences from her many years of service in the office of Congressman Rayburn in Washington, D. C.

His experiences while aboard the repair ship USS Rigel during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Childhood in Wichita Falls and Arlington, Tex.; family’s tradition of military service; decision to enlist in U.S. Marine Corps Reserves in 1995; experiences in boot camp at Camp Pendleton, Cal.; training as diesel mechanic; realization that he would be activated and shift in reservist…

Her experiences as a student at the Frederick Douglass Colored School, Denton, Texas, 1910-21. School facilities; comments about her teachers; discipline; school equipment and facilities; segregation and Klan activities in Denton.

Survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Sinking of Houston, 1942; capture and imprisonment at Serang, Java; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1944; Singapore, 1944-45; hell ship…

His experiences while aboard the heavy minelayer USS Ogallala during the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

His experiences at Hickam Field with the post medical detachment during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

For the Skylab Oral History Project. NASA communications engineer and assistant flight director. Memories of childhood in New Britain, Conn.; service in Korean War-era Air Force; 1963 decision to join NASA; communications work for Apollo, Skylab, International Space Station, and Space Shuttle program missions; trouble-shooting for Skylab missions…

His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Oklahoma during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

His experiences at Hickam Field with the 324th Signal Company during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.